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My Thoughts on Healing, Raiding, and being a Resto DruidWed, 07 Dec 2016 17:32:52 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Hugginss_GRz (@Huggins_Balnz)https://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/2013/08/06/tier-15-resto-spective/#comment-8834
Wed, 07 Aug 2013 18:17:44 +0000http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/?p=2881#comment-8834Beru loves turtle kicking.
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Wed, 07 Aug 2013 17:15:54 +0000http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/?p=2881#comment-8833[…] I read Beru’s Tier 15 Resto-spective, and I thought I may as well break my blogging silence and write my own. I’m not going to […]
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Wed, 07 Aug 2013 08:59:18 +0000http://fallingleavesandwings.wordpress.com/?p=2881#comment-8827Hey Beru- grats on finishing out the tier. This is also my first completed raid tier (all completed ahead of the new patch etc). You can tell the difference between 10/25m scaling mechanics I think by our differing opinions on favorite/least favorite to heal haha. I’m looking forward to the patch- we’re in a much better place than we were at the start of the expansion and I look forward to SoO and what our tweaks will bring to the table. We did the tier (mostly) without a lock or hunter, so it was interesting to see agi mail drop all the time (h tf of course) and not be able to use lock portal strats… My favorite/least favorites of this tier (which btw I think has been my favorite raid tier since Ulduar content/looks/mechanics etc wise):

Jin’Rokh-Aside from the lightning phases there really isn’t much to write home about. Once I placed my Symb on our Shaman I no longer had issues on the lightning phase survivability since my tranq kept me up through my mistakes and helped out with people who also got clipped. Mushrooms were fun on this encounter and dispelling really wasn’t a big deal like I had anticipated. Meh fight.
Horridon-That f*cking dinosaur. Aide from people building sandcastles, being terrible at knocking back my own dinosaur at times (tunnel vision ftl) and the sheer endurance needed to get through the doors when not very geared I don’t mind this fight. It’s interesting to try and use your mushrooms in a manner where they hit people- but we had designated stack points for ranged so unless a poo puddle dropped there it was easy to manage them. Aside from feeling like they didn’t know how to make the encounter harder and they were like “dino ghosts!” I don’t really mind this one.
Council-We ended up 2 healing this pre-nerf. I’m honestly not sure how we managed it but I was proud of us. I actually enjoy this fight. I get to use most of my tool kit and it’s better than the prior 2 bosses.
Tortos- I really enjoy healing this boss. I haven’t had to kick the turtles (knock on wood) and I feel druids really excel in this fight, at least in 10 man. My overhealing actually works FOR me and we can usually keep the shield at max for most of the fight. At times the sheer amount of turtles whirling around can be annoying but we have it easier than most with our mobility. Fun fight.
Megaera- Fuck.This.Fight. I have not hated a fight like this since Heroic Mimiron. Both have fire- hmmmmmm. I relied heavily on mushrooms during rampages to help us out. Reglyphed stampeding roar and we had a solid cd rotation. I believe the best thing I can say about this fight is “at least the purple breath is pretty and sparkly if you die to it”. Do not like this fight, don’t think I ever will. Fire, Ice, everywhere. “No make a sweeping run up the hill. NOT THAT WAY NOOOOOOOO”…
Ji-Kun- This fight was pretty forgettable. Healing the nests was interesting but aside from Quills there’s really not much to write home about. As long as people avoid the caws it’s pretty easy.
Durumu- I was terrified of this fight before we did it. I actually ended up enjoying it. I love healing during the maze phase. I don’t know how- but I’m actually decent at navigating the maze and pop ToL and heal heal heal. I thought for sure I’d be awful at the maze but save a few “oops” moments, it’s been smooth sailing.
Primordius- I’m on the fence with this boss. Depending on the order of the bosses buffs it can be a bit of a clusterfudge. This is one of the fights I’m still completely oom at the end of. I just didn’t find it fun…
Dark Animus-This is another fight I’m not in love with. Robots touch? That’s a paddlin’. Stood in anima font? That’s a paddlin’. Got matter swaped into something bad? That’s a paddlin’. It was interesting to heal- but it just kind of felt like there were so many variables that could go wrong, you were always waiting for the other shoe to drop and it could be distracting trying to predict what could happen next depending on the position of a matter swap etc.
Iron Quon- I enjoyed this fight. Using mushrooms on the first quilien in melee was a god-sent. I actually even enjoyed the spears and positioning and everything. Aside from a few tornado fails this was a fun fight.
Twin Consorts- This is a fight I could take or leave. It only took us 6 pulls to kill it our first time… It kind of felt anti-climactic. I enjoy the inferno phases with pre-placed charged mushrooms. That’s about all I’ve got for this.
Lei-Shen- I expected to hate this fight but actually ended up enjoying it. I didn’t even get really frustrated through the learning curves. I enjoyed having to play smartly to be able to 2 heal this and still have mana for the omgeverythinghurts last phase. I think this is the boss that took us the most attempts as a guild all expansion (previous record was HM Spirit Kings in MSV @140ish attempts)- with 160 attempts. This was a fun encounter with many mechanics and learning curves- all of which are brutally unforgiving.
Ra-Den- Mushrooms. I love you. They were almost my top heal for that fight… Sorry rejuv. We ended up having people take the vita on an alphabetical basis based on who got the first debuff. Once we figured that out everything clicked and our first time into P2 we downed him. After lei shen, and it taking so many attempts he really felt anti-climactic compared to say, Algalon in Wrath.

Good luck in SoO and thanks for keeping up with the Blog; I stalk it almost daily🙂